This has been quite an interesting day. First of all, I was too busy (and too lazy) to cook, which led into me being kept alive by consuming coffee-dipped cookies. Now, here is an important tip: pick mugs that are at least as wide as your favorite cookies and keep a spoon near-by, because only real experts can enjoy coffee-dipped cookies without ending up with a muddy cookie sludge at the bottom of their mug.
The (not) being an expert part
Secondly, I wrote 5 articles with some relation to interior design for some Asian country (I am ghost-writing, so I shall not reveal more details) and I came across a few articles about why you should not hesitate to write about anything, even though you are not an expert. Here is one of them. They key point is that you do not need to be THE expert in order to do content writing. You just need to be one step ahead than your editor and your readers. And this can be achieved with a bit of conscious googling, for most subjects.
Nutrition, fashion, relationships, tech-trends, music, alternative healing, all sorts of products are just some of the topics that you can write about without holding a degree. I have written a series of articles about foreclosures in Albuquerque and I had no clue where that was. I had to find out though. A few weeks later we watched "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Albuquerque was mentioned and I realized I knew everything about its real estate market. Funny life.
The good people part
On a side note, I feel like the luckiest sister in the world, because my brother, even though younger, earns enough to be able to afford the equipment that I need for my job and loves me enough to buy me said equipment. So this pic was taken with my brand new Logitech HD 1080p high definition camera that he bought me. As he wrote in his e-mail "Please stop using up the valuable space of cyber-space by uploading videos that you attempted to make by plugging in your laptop potatoes/loafers/etc. Buy a decent camera". And he funded it and he had also already done the research on what I should buy. What can I say, I am grateful.
The "good people" part of the title refers also to the freelancers that I come across online (in LinkedIn and various blogs), that are willing to give valuable advice to a newbie like me. A wise advice that I got today was that, advice is important no matter whom it comes from. You need of course to take into consideration if the person who offers you advice has used it for themselves, but you do not need to start thinking if they have the right degrees/years of experience/ background/age/gender/and what not. Being open and critical at the same time is what matters.
The shop part
In my website, I have an e-shop where I sell my designs. Until I become famous though, it is not that likely that someone is going to google "Has Alexia of "Alexia's Writings and Designs" designed anything that I can buy?" and find my shop. Hence I decided to create a shop over at Storenvy.com. Communities always work best for this sort of stuff. I designed my banner and background image and the like today and I will start uploading stuff really soon.
My job is to keep you posted.
Your job is to stay tuned.
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